This polymer clay tutorial explains how to sculpt tiny Lady's Slippers (or Paphiopedilum) orchids, how to make the leaves with different shades of polymer clay, how to apply these sculpted details to a sea glass base, and how to do simple wire-wrapping of the sea glass pieces.

Bonus material includes instructions for a faux sea glass (made of polymer clay, of course!).

This tutorial includes:

Detailed list of materials;

Complete list of tools needed to finish this project;

Nineteen pages of detailed step-by-step instructions;

Additional tips to guide you though this project;

Nearly fifty big full-color pictures showing every step.

The first two pictures on this page show the project described in this tutorial. The last two pictures demonstrate the possibilities of the techniques explained in this tutorial. Place a mouse over the small pictures to see them enlarged.